news 28 Posted December 11, 2009 This is a multi-part message in MIME format... ------------=_1260490015-24326-1935 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 _______________________________________________________________________ Mandriva Linux Advisory MDVA-2009:249 http://www.mandriva.com/security/ _______________________________________________________________________ Package : mdkonline Date : December 10, 2009 Affected: 2009.0 _______________________________________________________________________ Problem Description: This update fixes several issues regarding the live upgrade to a more recent distribution, notably: - new distributions are now only presented after all updates were applied. - if current distribution is no more supported, we will warn about it and offer to upgrade to a newer release - makes the new config tool backported from 2010.0 to work on 2009.0 too (due to older drakxtools API) - update the authentication scheme for MES5 It also fix a couple crashes: - a rare crash (bug #55346) - gracefully handle (rare) server issues (bugs #51299 & #51548) Now passwords with special caracters are properly managed. For security, we now access api.mandriva.com through the https protocol. The applet now offer to configure a couple settings. It has now more efficient system power usage. _______________________________________________________________________ Updated Packages: Mandriva Linux 2009.0: 1a214db2749b3598dc7f77cbd074b768 2009.0/i586/mdkonline-2.77.14-1.1mdv2009.0.noarch.rpm 5879071c435e2b700637967ad1320450 2009.0/SRPMS/mdkonline-2.77.14-1.1mdv2009.0.src.rpm Mandriva Linux 2009.0/X86_64: 52c5666c2c8a728633843993b20ddfd2 2009.0/x86_64/mdkonline-2.77.14-1.1mdv2009.0.noarch.rpm 5879071c435e2b700637967ad1320450 2009.0/SRPMS/mdkonline-2.77.14-1.1mdv2009.0.src.rpm _______________________________________________________________________ To upgrade automatically use MandrivaUpdate or urpmi. The verification of md5 checksums and GPG signatures is performed automatically for you. All packages are signed by Mandriva for security. You can obtain the GPG public key of the Mandriva Security Team by executing: gpg --recv-keys --keyserver pgp.mit.edu 0x22458A98 You can view other update advisories for Mandriva Linux at: http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories If you want to report vulnerabilities, please contact security_(at)_mandriva.com _______________________________________________________________________ Type Bits/KeyID Date User ID pub 1024D/22458A98 2000-07-10 Mandriva Security Team -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFLIWA7mqjQ0CJFipgRAm3PAKDmscra9I2YzychQgl7PhCugVCyRQCfdz1h om/OgNsnZY7cZCZYTptfw+c= =n0dB -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------=_1260490015-24326-1935 Content-Type: text/plain; name="message-footer.txt" Content-Disposition: inline; filename="message-footer.txt" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit To unsubscribe, send a email to sympa ( -at -) mandrivalinux.org with this subject : unsubscribe security-announce _______________________________________________________ Want to buy your Pack or Services from Mandriva? Go to http://www.mandrivastore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrivaclub.com _______________________________________________________ ------------=_1260490015-24326-1935-- Share this post Link to post
